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Jaunty old Canon Kir is a Gallic equivalent of the late Fiorello La Guardia-a Napoleon-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) "autocrat" with no inhibitions. In his normal dress of beret, black cassock and high-laced shoes, Kir occasionally descends on the gendarmé directing traffic at Dijon's Coin du Miroir, takes over, creates monumental traffic tie-ups. At the inauguration of a new public school gymnasium, Kir, cassock and all, shinnied up five feet of rope to answer a photographer's challenge. When he found himself locked out of his apartment, Kir stalked back...
...Bishop of Dijon for a team of priestly commandos who specialized in street-corner evangelism. He learned to give free-thinking hecklers tit for tat. "You talk a lot about God, but we've never seen him," one yelled at him. "Prove to us he exists." Answered the canon: "You've never seen my derriere, have you? Nevertheless, it exists...
that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon gainst self-slaughter...
Holder of Yale's new T. Lawrason Riggs Professorship in Religion, a $500,000 chair set up by anonymous alumni in honor of a longtime Yale Catholic chaplain, is Stephen G. Kuttner, now at Catholic University in Washington, the nation's only lay professor of canon law and a model of the small-c catholic manner. The son of a Jewish mother, German-born Lawyer Kuttner, 56, grew up as a Lutheran, became a Catholic after fleeing the Nazis in 1933. He learned canon law as a refugee researcher in the Vatican library, became one of the world...
Kuttner, who speaks five languages and has nine children, is the founder-president of Catholic U.'s institute of medieval canon law; Yale will get the institute as well as the professor...